THE YUMYUM TREE

This is where I got off of the OZRIC'S spaceship and headed home. A good album and we know what to expect but this felt uninspired. Having said that it was pretty cool that Joie Hinton(synths) and Mrev Pepler(drums) both long, long time members are guesting on the same two tracks which I'm sure was a blast for the band to record. Joie was there from the start while Merv arrived in 1988 or so.

I like dividing their discography in three with the first six albums from the 80's of which I have one being part one and then seven from the nineties their most popular period by far being part two and then post 90's we have eight records of which I have three and "The Floor's Too Far Away" is easily my favourite from their most recent period. I was thinking the other day that the happiest music fan must be the one who's favourite band is the OZRIC TENTACLES. I mean Ed Wynne has decided to keep the same formula from the start because it works. So as a fan you know that the flavour of each album might be slightly different but yeah I'm getting the same tasting Big Mac I always get.

One dimensional? Again if it works why change it? I don't have any of their albums in my "best of" Psychedelic list but that my tastes in music and finding that a consistently good album from this band is hard to find although that post 90's record I mentioned does that for me. Even the cover art work like the band's music continues in the same vein. They went one style for their first five then the rest is in the style most of us know. This is a brand!

Anyway not my favourite from this band by a long shot, just feeling like I said a little stale to my ears. As usual we get some ethnic sounds, plenty of synths often in the style I don't like, some reggae of course and silliness with the beeps and blips. I enjoy the guitar parts the most but I definitely didn't even consider that this was a 4 star record even though it was a fun week listening to it.